Green Day

Green Day will be playing the season finale of Saturday Night Live on May 16th (hosted by Will Ferrell). This makes it even more likely that the band will be playing Bowery Ballroom in NYC two nights later as SNL is broadcast live from New York (wow that unintentionally sounded like the cheesy opening on the show).

Green Day also announced yesterday a full summer tour starting July 3rd in Seattle, WA and be wrapping up on August 26th with two shows in Los Angeles. The tour will be in support of “21st Century Breakdown” (May 15th Reprise Records), their first album in over four years. Check out the dates inside.

Frustrated you can only hear 90 seconds of Green Day’s new single “Know Your Enemy” on the band’s MySpace? Well you can actually hear the song in full by buying it digitally on iTunes and all other digital music retailers (hi eMusic!). We’re listening to it now on repeat and loving it!…

On tonight’s 1000th episode of Last Call with Carson Daly, Daly was reflecting on one of his favorite moments when his show was the only one that would let Green Day perform “Jesus of Suburbia” in full on TV. Daly mentioned that the band would be performing next on Last Call in June playing for a full week. Knowing Last Call’s format, it’ll most likely be one full concert with a different song or two from the same performance airing …

Billboard (via MTV Germany, wtf?) is reporting that Green Day will be playing an album release show at the Bowery Ballroom on May 18th, three days after the release of their new album “21st Century Breakdown”. The band is playing a few clubs shows leading up to the new album. They played the Independent in San Francisco last week and are playing the Fox Theater tonight in Oakland.

Green Day played a surprise show Tuesday night (4/7) at the Independent in San Francisco. The band played a mix of classics with their new album “21st Century Breakdown” which they performed in full (all 3 acts). Look inside for a review from Spin and some videos

Green Day’s new album “21st Century Breakdown” will be released on May 15. Produced by Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage), “21st Century Breakdown” is the band’s first album in over four years. Like “American Idiot”, it will be a concept album but this time about a young couple named Christian and Gloria. The first single’s “Know Your Enemy” and it’ll be out next month.

The band will be touring North American arenas in July before going to Europe. …

Legendary producer/Garbage drummer (I probably should’ve said drummer in Garbage or percussion dude in Garbage?) Butch Vig will be producing the new Green Day album. This will be the first new Green Day album since 2004’s American Idiot. It should be noted that their previous album Warning came out in 2000. Hey Green Day, are you trying to tell us something with all these election year albums? Hmmmm.